---
type: "Bill"
title: "Purple Star School Program"
description: "The act creates the purple star school program (program) in the department of education (department). The purpose of the program is to designate schools of a school district, district charter schools, institute charter schools, or boards of cooperative services (public schools) that provide services and supports to military-connected students and their families to help mitigate the academic and social-emotional challenges they may face as a result of frequent moves, new schools, parental deployments, and different social circles and experiences."
jurisdiction: "us/states/co"
legislature: "Colorado General Assembly"
session: "2024A"
identifier: "HB 24-1076"
citation: "Colorado HB 24-1076 (2024A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Gardner", "Mike Weissman", "Rhonda Fields"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-18T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c1a21f8-4c02-45bf-b22c-460d3676f8b6"
source_url: "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1076"
source_hash: "3935b787f4b463d68bda012d11f07a7cd068b42310b8a0ca27b42e975f1bbcce"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-co"]
---

# Colorado HB 24-1076 (2024A) — Purple Star School Program

The act creates the purple star school program (program) in the department of education (department). The purpose of the program is to designate schools of a school district, district charter schools, institute charter schools, or boards of cooperative services (public schools) that provide services and supports to military-connected students and their families to help mitigate the academic and social-emotional challenges they may face as a result of frequent moves, new schools, parental deployments, and different social circles and experiences.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_hb1076_s_app_002.pdf)
2. **Engrossed (02/16/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1076_eng.pdf)
3. **Final Act (05/08/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1076_enr.pdf)
4. **Introduced (01/10/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1076_01.pdf)
5. **PA1 (02/16/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1076_h_app_01.pdf)
6. **Reengrossed (02/20/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1076_ren.pdf)
7. **Rerevised (05/03/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1076_rer.pdf)
8. **Revised (05/02/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1076_rev.pdf)
9. **Signed Act (05/18/2024)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1076_signed.pdf)

## Votes

- BILL — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- BILL — **53–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Gardner — primary (person)
- Mike Weissman — primary (person)
- Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-05-18T06:00:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2024-05-08T06:00:00+00:00** Signed by the Speaker of the House
- **2024-05-03T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
- **2024-05-02T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-18T06:00:00+00:00** Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education `introduction`
- **2024-02-20T07:00:00+00:00** House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
- **2024-02-16T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31T07:00:00+00:00** House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10T07:00:00+00:00** Introduced In House - Assigned to Education `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c1a21f8-4c02-45bf-b22c-460d3676f8b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).